Fluid-elevating means.



J. MUZZY.

FLUiD ELEVATING MEANS. APPLICATION FILED MAY 29. m1.

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Patented Apr. 22, 1919.

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Patented Apr. 22, 1919.

J. MUZZY.

FLUID ELEVATING MEANS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 29, 1917.

INVENTOR- J0/1/7 Jig/22y, BY mfim ATTORNEY WiTNESSES W JOHN MuzzY, or wanna, MINNESOTA.

FLUID-ELEVATING- MEANS.

Specification of Letters lPatent. mmm App, 22, 1%19 Application filed May 29, 1917. Seriallt'o. 171,738.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that 1, JOHN MUZZY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Warba, in the county of Itasca and State of Minnesota, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fluid-Elevating Means, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in fluid elevating means.

In carrying out my invention I propose to construct a pump wherein the fluid will be elevated and ejected through the spout of the pump by the weight of a person resting upon a suitable platform connected with the operating mechanism for the pump and whereby the action of the pump will be practically automatic.

With the above and other objects in View the improvement resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and falling within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a view of the improvement and illustrating the manner in which the same is actuated,

Fig. 2 is a central vertical longitudinal sectional view through the improvement and through the well casing,

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view ap proximately on the line 33 of Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the device.

In the bottom of the well 1 I arrange a tubular member 2 which extends above the water level in the well and which is fixed.

stationary therein in any desired manner, or the said tube may be in the nature of the well casing proper and especially when the tubular member 2 rests upon the bottom of a rock drilled well, the same may be provided with a valve seat 3 having a flat valve 4 which opens upwardly of the said tube 2. Within the tube 2 is arranged a piston 5, the same being provided with a suitable packing ring 6 which contacts with the bore of the tube so as to efiect in maintaining a tight engagementbetween the piston and the said tube. Connected with the piston and communicating with the open bottom of the said piston is a pipe member 6, the same extending a suitable distance above the top of the well, which for distinction is indicated by the numeral 7, the upper end of the said pipe having arranged thereon a weighted element 8. The pipe 6 is provided with an outlet spout 9 that has arranged therein a valve 10 operated by a hand wheel 11, and

the pipe 6 upwardly of the spout 9 is providedr-with a globe valve 12.

The pipe 6 at a suitable distance below the outlet spout 9 has secured thereto a collar or similar device 13 provided with oppositely arranged transversely extending arms 14: which are round in cross section and which receive anti-frictional rollers 15, and the purpose of this arrangement will be presently described. The pipe 6, in addition to passing through the bearing opening in the top of the well also passes through a bearing opening 16 in the upper or longitudinal member 17 of the upright frame. The frame isprovided with depending members 19 which are preferably of tubiform and which are received in hollow standards 20 that are secured to the upper facing or the ground surface of the well. The numerals 21 designate adjustable elements preferably .in-the nature of set screws which pass through threaded openings in the standards 20 and which engage with the tubiform leg members 19 of the frame. It will thus be noted that the frame proper may be vertically adjusted with respect to the standards or supports 20. Upon the element 17 of the frame and on the opposite sides of the hearing 16 are arranged grooved wheels or rollers 23, and at the corners of the frame are arranged grooved or sprocket wheels 24. Upon the pipe 6, at a suitable distance outwardly of the spout 9 is secured a cross arm 25 that has attached to its opposite ends flexible elements preferably in the nature of chains 26 and these chains are trained over the guide wheels 23 and 2d as illustrated in the drawings, while to the ends of the said chains or flexible elements are connected weights 27. The weights are in the n ature of countenbalancing elements and are designed to move the pipe 6 vertically in an upward direction so that the piston 5 will normally remain approximately level with the upper surface of the water contained in the tube 2. Pivotally secured upon the ground surface 7, as at 30, is one end of a normally inclined platform 31, the opposite end of the said platform being slotted or bifurcated, as at 32, whereby this end of the platform may wardly in the well casing, so that the water in the tube 2 will be forced upwardly in the pipe 6 and through the outlet spout in the said pipe, it being understood, of course, that the valve of the spout is in its open position, and from experience I have found that a single operation of the platform 31 is suflicient to elevate sufficient water from the tube 2 through the pipe 6 to fill an ordinary bucket. When the weight of the operator is removed from the platform 31 the counterbalancing weights 27 will return the pipe 6 and the piston 5 to their initial positions, and should more water he required a second operation of the platform 31 is necessitated.

The pipe 6', by a construction as above described, may have its valved end lowered in the tube 2, should the water in the well 1 fall below the usual level, and for this reason the cover of the Well is provided with a transverse opening 32 to receive the arms 14 when the platform 31 is pressed clown- Wardly into contacting engagement with the cover of the well. 7

When the device is to be used as a force pump, the valve 10 is closed and the hand or globe valve 12 is opened. The weighted element 8 is removed, and a hose is connected to the upper end 7 of the pipe, and the platform operates the device in one direction, in a manner as above described.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

In a water elevating means, a water containing tube, a pipe arranged in the tube and vertically movable with respect thereto, a hollow valved piston in the tube and connected with the pipe, a removable weighted element closing the upper open end of the pipe, a valved outlet spout for the pipe, a globe valve above said spout, a frame comprising adjustable uprights and a transverse member connecting said uprights, means for sustaining the uprights adjusted, and a bearing on the transverse member for the pipe, a cross arm on the pipe, flexible elements secured thereto, guide wheels on the frame for the flexible elements, weights secured to the ends of the said elements, transversely extending arms on the pipe, and a platform having an outer hinged end and an inner bifurcated end that straddles the pipe and rests on the arms, all as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JOHN MUZZY.

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